In this issue

The War on Nostalgia
What will it take to end the myth of the Lost Cause?
By Clint Smith

The Neglected
Origin Stories of Black America
By Annette Gordon-Reed

How To End Extreme Child Poverty

Buried deep in the latest pandemic stimulus package is a transformative approach to helping families.

10+ mins

Stacey Abrams Writes A Thriller

How she became a novelist, what politics and writing have in common, and why, at the end of every good story, someone’s got to die

10 mins

Burn All The Leggings

What do you wear to the reopening of society?

9 mins

Elvis Reenters The Building

In rural Ohio, a performer bookends a year of struggle and survival.

9 mins

Whose Side Is Kavanaugh On?

Conservatives hope to weaponize his bitterness. Liberals are inviting him over for dinner.

10+ mins

Purgatory At Sea

Off the coast of Italy, cruise ships are being repurposed as holding pens for migrants rescued from the mediterranean.

10+ mins

THE WAR ON NOSTALGIA

The myth of the Lost Cause is passed down like an heirloom. What would it take for the truth to break through?

10+ mins

Estebanico's America

The story of Africans on this continent is longer and more varied than the version I was taught in school.

10+ mins

Alison Bechdel's Spiritual Sprint

In her new memoir, the cartoonist runs, climbs, bikes, skis, spins, and Solo exes her way toward transcendence.

6 mins

The Power of Refusal

New novels by Rachel Cusk and Jhumpa Lahiri explore women’s struggle to withdraw and create.

9 mins

What Richard Wright Knew

A previously unpublished novel reveals his bleak prescience about race in America.

8 mins

Fiction – Bump

To those who accuse me of immoderate desire, I say look at the oil executives. Look at the Gold Rush. Look at all the women who want a ring and romance and lifelong commitment, and then look again at me.

10+ mins

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